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Lowdown — Auto-generate newsletters from Slack community content
Lowdown unleashes the valuable content locked within Slack and delivers it to your members inboxes as a weekly email newsletter, guiding them back to engage.
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@armstrong IKR? Welcome to my world. Would you want control over which channels you receive updates from or are you happy to go with what the community surfaces?
@shylands I think I'd be happy with a general summary of what's going on in the Slack workspaces I’m a part of. May want more fine-grained control down the line, but not at first
@armstrong Cool, we really need a way for community members like yourself to recommend Lowdown to the Slack's they are in!
👋 Hi Product Hunt!
Last year I started a Slack community which grew to over 800 members, but I noticed that many of the people who joined didn’t engage and eventually disappeared.
I desperately wanted a way to re-engage with these members so I could remind them of the valuable content my community offered. If I could do that they’d know what they missed and could return to get involved.
That’s when we had the idea to highlight the post's members engaged with the most in a weekly newsletter — and Lowdown was born!
Here’s how it works:
- Lowdown watches the Slack channels of your choice and automatically highlights the posts with the most replies and emoji reactions. You can also and post to your newsletter directly from Slack in two clicks.
- Easily get subscribers by either auto-subscribing your entire membership or asking for permission via a message sent to any channel/DM by our Slackbot.
- That’s it, your newsletter will send every week with absolutely no need for manual input.
We’re also sharing transparent bi-weekly progress updates in our quest to achieve $10K MRR by July 2020. https://getlowdown.com/blog/ and developing a version of Lowdown specifically for tech teams using Slack. Register your interest here https://getlowdown.com/teams
We’d love to hear any feedback or ideas on how we can improve Lowdown, so please tell us what you think. Cheers! 💬📰🖖
I love how this summarises the best of our reading channel, and turns it into Sunday reading.
Fascinated by all the potential of turning real-time messages + team/community votes and essentially automatically crowdsourcing newsletters.
Keen to experiment with it as a way to do investor/customer updates.
- Is it possible to make a newsletter from a private channel?
P.s. really like your blog and transparency.
@chrismcclelland Thanks Chris. Yeah you can do this right now. When you join you get to select the channels (including private) you'd like your newsletter content to be generated from. 😊
I'm with @ben_lindsay1: How did this not exist before?! Lowdown is superhelpful, especially when you're in a lot of Slacks and are time poor. Great work, Steven! 🎉 🚀 What it is is what it is!
Looking forward to giving this a go once I have a bit more traction in my community.
Is it easy to possible to add links/articles to the newsletter by posting them in Slack?
@kylegawley Yeah any post in Slack can be added to your newsletter directly from Slack including links. We're working on an update that will represent any links in a nicer more visual way too.
I'm part of a few Slack communities and I struggle to keep up sometimes, but I don't like feeling like I've missed useful or entertaining content so I generally have to find time to scroll through the various channels for updates - not great! Thank you for creating this, huge problem solver! 🙌🏻
@keizgoesboom Thanks Melissa, I hope your communities find us so they can make your life a little easier!
👋 I’m Phil, Co-founder and CTO at Lowdown. If you have any questions about Lowdown, I’d be glad to help.
Oh wow - this is actually exactly what we were looking for to avoid the manual task we have each week for Traffic Think Tank 2.0
@riser_spy Thanks Yadav! Let us know what you think (good or bad). If there is anything that you think the product is missing, we'd love to know about it.
I just saw an example post for one of the communities I participate it and holy moly it's *awesome* ... love it! Any plans to support discord?
@temirlan Hey Tim, sorry just saw this thank you! We're keeping an open mind to other platforms for future - but in the near term we're focused on Slack unfortunately.
love how it automatically highlights the posts with the most replies and emoji reactions!
@conorg763 Thanks Conor! Yeah it works really well especially in those very busy Slacks.
This is something I could really use... I am always losing things to the Slack history. Probably sign of my own ill-discipline! But sure, what's software for anyway!
@mike_budi I hear you Mike - many people have this problem with Slack. We expect Lowdown will get better and better at helping you keep track of the important stuff you're losing to the never-ending Slack wall of chat!
Certainly don’t want to take focus away from this great idea (and the ease of use), but for those of you wanting to build this with no-code and Zapier, here’s the tutorial for this exact solution (plus take into account threads instead of just reactji’s): https://brycevernon.com/slack-ne...
@bryce_vernon1 Cheers for sharing Bryce, nice tutorial. We're at an early stage in our product dev. In the next few months we hope to add tonnes more value beyond the first version we have live now.
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